> Cause an interplanetary probe to crash or an airliner to run out of fuel.
>
> You know, one of those stupid mistake caused by incorrect conversions. My
> conversion trip-up was converting "front rotor" from the car to the
> airplane (and ignoring the "F" and "R" that I stamped into the rotor
> housings).
>
> I had fuel. I had air. I had spark. It was just that the spark was
> going to the wrong rotor. And I used a timing light to verify that I was
> getting the spark. Except I took the timing from the wrong rotor. I even
> searched this group and verified that I had the EDIS-4 coils wired
> correctly. Connectors 1 and 4 go to the front rotor. Given that the
> front rotor is the one in the front on the airplane, not the car.
>
> Doh!!
>
> Once I switched the plug wires around and cleared the engine (turned it a
> bit with the fuel pumps and injectors off), the engine kicked off in two
> blades. Someone has GOT to develop a cure for stupid, or I'm doomed.
>
> Word to the wise. You've verified fuel, air, and spark, and compression.
> The engine's spinning with the starter at around 250rpm, but it just won't
> kick off. Every few turns, though, it is like something blocks the engine
> from turning and it stall for a split second. Check your spark plug
> wiring.
>
> Good news:
> - FIRST TAXI !!! It was only about 3ft, but it is the first time in this
> ten year project that I've had something to move under its own power!!
>
> - The manifold modification is a success. I had the secondary injectors
> spraying backwards, away from the runner, under the theory that it would
> help the fuel vaporize better. Wrong. It just puddled in the manifold.
> A little more fiberglass work, and both sets are spraying with the airflow
> now. I cut power to the fuel pump and the engine immediately cuts out.
> It used to slowly choke down as it was sucking some of the puddled fuel
> out of the manifold.
>
> - I don't seem to have damaged anything with the backwards plug wires.
>
> - I've got to rework my tune. Yes, this is a good thing. The aggressive
> prop is loading the engine, combined with the fuel actually getting burned
> AS it is injected and not after it has pooled a while, have combined to
> throw off the current tune. Fortunately, this isn't very hard with a
> running engine.
>
> -FIRST TAXI !! I'm juiced. You guys that are flying better watch your
> six. I'm a comin'.
>
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